If you say I hate the automotive designers who can’t design properly angled headlights, I’m criminalizing your shit take too

  • Pulptastic@midwest.social
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    6 days ago

    Criminalize cars

    Criminalize headlights

    Criminalize headlights mounted higher than 18" above the ground

    Criminalize headlights aimed higher than 18" above the ground

    I’m cool with LEDs though, lights that use less power and last longer are cool.

  • COASTER1921@lemmy.ml
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    The problem isn’t LED headlights as much as it is aftermarket LED headlights not working with the reflectors intended for halogen ones. This causes them to reflect light up as well as down, making them more blinding to other drivers. A car is only intended for the type of bulb it was sold with, and changing the bulb to a different type is a serious safety hazard.

    And secondly for some stupid reason the earlier model cars from American manufacturers with LED headlights used PWM to control the brightness, giving them the flickering appearance (and for many people a headache).

    And the worst part is that a good LED headlight is indistinguishable from a halogen one, so there’s really no way to fix their reputation.

    We also need regulations on headlight height, most of the popular big pickup trucks and SUVs have their headlights higher up than the roof of my hatchback. It’s not safe to drive when even properly installed lights are shining straight in through the windshield.

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    7 days ago

    squidward-scream-point Gas-powered leaf blowers should be banned, or at least heavily regulated

    Oh and personal ownership for pickup trucks should require proof of need. Otherwise, have a communal pool that people can borrow from on the off chance they are actually hauling something

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      In most places they are, but cops don’t give 2 shits about enforcing it to the point that nobody knows there are dB limits to vehicles

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        I had a shitbox with a piece of pipe I welded on after the exhaust fell off once (it was fully legal and passed state inspection). I got pulled for driving the speed limit and the cop told me I was breaking noise ordinance. I ask which ordinance and all they did was fume at me that they can’t “name it off the top of their head”. I’m sure the cop never pulled over someone in a giant diesel truck or a 100k sports car for making noise.

  • ReadFanon [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    Lawns should be banned except in situations where there is genuine a recreational purpose for the public (sports fields, dog parks etc.)

    Schools should have a public health focus for each term and students should be exposed to the importance of a particular public health issue, the consequences of failing to address that issue, the victims of the issue, and ways to manage or mitigate the issue. I’m talking seatbelts, polio, diabetes, you name it. Get a person who has a traumatic brain injury who is employed as a public speaker to meet with students and talk about what happened to them when they didn’t wear a seatbelt and the ways that it affects their life to this day, show documentaries about victims of polio, that sort of thing.

    Chopsticks are the most versatile implement in the cutlery world.

    Most ingredients in domestic cleaning products should be banned or at the least restricted because we don’t need the widespread use of things like bacteriostatic agents and we don’t need to be exposing children and waterways to that kind of shit.

    Most advertising campaigns that are against addiction are actually an op and they serve to encourage people to engage in those behaviours and to relapse.

    There should be a hotline that the government operates which records a question or concern that you have and then communicates this to a qualified expert in the relevant field who then contacts you to provide you with a response based on the best, most up-to-date science. The responses should be collated into a sort of FAQ/encyclopaedia with written responses and short video lectures so that the most commonly asked questions can be addressed immediately and so that this can help guide the development of educational curricula.